I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Here is the embedding URL I used:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249"></script><noscript>Watch the latest news video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop') < 0) { document.write(''); }
And that's it.
Every other video site I have visited will play nice--YouTube, Google Video, everyone. What is wrong with Fox?
Am I missing a plugin, perhaps? Here's the output of about:plugins on my browser:
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Installed plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Shockwave Flash
File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
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Temlakos
On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Here is the embedding URL I used:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249"></script><noscript>Watch
the latest news video at<a href="http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')< 0) { document.write(''); }
And that's it.
[snip]
Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2,
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51
Time to update your browser.
Regards,
John
On 03/31/2010 10:24 AM, john wendel wrote:
On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Here is the embedding URL I used:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249"></script><noscript>Watch
the latest news video at<a href="http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')< 0) { document.write(''); }
And that's it.
[snip]
Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2,
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51
Time to update your browser.
Regards,
John
Then you recommend abandoning the Fedora build and going directly to Mozilla for their latest RPM?
And the same with Flash? I'm using "R45"; you have "D51."
Temlakos
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Temlakos wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
The link works, and the video plays just fine. System is Fedora 10, uptodate as of the end of support, the java is the latest _real_ java, and my plugins dir looks like this: [root@coyote 3.002005]# ls -l //usr/lib/plugins total 3980 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12720 2006-12-29 22:25 kaffeineplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2010-03-01 23:14 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2008-11-18 18:51 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/latest/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so -r--r--r-- 1 root root 426832 2009-08-08 05:53 libNPSVG3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15716 2010-03-24 16:28 libnullplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4076 2009-01-19 11:46 librhythmbox-itms-detection- plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68512 2008-10-26 12:47 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94568 2008-10-26 12:47 libtotem-cone-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102688 2008-10-26 12:47 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68568 2008-10-26 12:47 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77088 2008-10-26 12:47 libtotem-narrowspace- plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99964 2009-04-09 13:31 libvlcplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531540 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531544 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-qt.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531552 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-rm.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 532536 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531540 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in.xpt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2008-11-18 18:51 nphelix.so -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2008-11-18 18:51 nphelix.xpt -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179552 2009-05-13 10:42 nppdf.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33944 2008-09-05 12:39 nsdejavu.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121956 2009-03-08 12:52 nswrapper_32_32.libvlcplugin.so
On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Plays here just fine with:
$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
Temlakos
On 03/31/2010 10:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Plays here just fine with:
$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
I have the same problem. $ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386
Trever
On 03/31/2010 02:41 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote:
On 03/31/2010 10:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakostemlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Plays here just fine with:
$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
I have the same problem. $ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386
Trever
How does it look? On my system, whenever I load a page having a video from Fox (like the page with the above link, a page I created myself, by the way), all I get is a top and bottom bar, with viewing controls not even appearing, much less functioning.
I'm still using a 32-bit kernel, so you and I aren't using the same kernel. Not that I would expect that to matter.
I tried installing the Greasemonkey add-on, and a script for "Fox News friendly videos." No joy.
Temlakos
--- On Wed, 3/31/10, Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Article displays properly & video plays. No problems.
Fedora 12. Firefox 3.5.8-1.fc12. Flash 10.0 r45 Alpha. kernel 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64. Everything 64-bit, including plugins, the list of which at first glance looks similar to yours, just all 64-bit.
Here is the embedding URL I used: [snip]
___________________________
Installed plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Shockwave Flash
File name: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
MIME Type Description [big snip]
From a later response of yours, you said you're all 32-bit--OS, Firefox, plugins, etc. Yes? Then why do you have nspluginwrapper installed? It's not needed. nspluginwrapper is meant to run 32-bit plugins on 64-bit browsers. You're all 32-bit. Maybe, this is the problem.
B
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Temlakos wrote:
On 03/31/2010 02:41 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote:
On 03/31/2010 10:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakostemlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Plays here just fine with:
$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
I have the same problem. $ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386
Trever
How does it look? On my system, whenever I load a page having a video from Fox (like the page with the above link, a page I created myself, by the way), all I get is a top and bottom bar, with viewing controls not even appearing, much less functioning.
I'm still using a 32-bit kernel, so you and I aren't using the same kernel. Not that I would expect that to matter.
So am I, using a 32 bit kernel. [root@coyote grub]# uname -r 2.6.34-rc3
I tried installing the Greasemonkey add-on, and a script for "Fox News friendly videos." No joy.
I don't recall if I have greasemonkey running or not, but the latter I never heard of. And no, greasemonkey is not now listed in the addons.
Temlakos
On 03/31/2010 01:36 PM, Temlakos wrote:
How does it look? On my system, whenever I load a page having a video from Fox (like the page with the above link, a page I created myself, by the way), all I get is a top and bottom bar, with viewing controls not even appearing, much less functioning.
I'm still using a 32-bit kernel, so you and I aren't using the same kernel. Not that I would expect that to matter.
I tried installing the Greasemonkey add-on, and a script for "Fox News friendly videos." No joy.
Temlakos
I haven't tried Greasemonkey at all. I get the same you do. Except it seems I get the top bar, bottom bar and a black/gray background between the two. The video controls (bottom bar) only show up when the cursor is over the video. I get no video or audio or even really time (length/remaining) on Fox.
Trever
On 03/31/2010 07:37 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 03/31/2010 10:24 AM, john wendel wrote:
On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
Here is the embedding URL I used:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249"></script><noscript>Watch
the latest news video at<a href="http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')< 0) { document.write(''); }
And that's it.
[snip]
Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2,
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51
Time to update your browser.
Regards,
John
Then you recommend abandoning the Fedora build and going directly to Mozilla for their latest RPM?
And the same with Flash? I'm using "R45"; you have "D51."
Temlakos
Well, I see from other replies that the Fedora build will play these videos properly, so, NO I would not recommend going directly to Mozilla for their browser. I'm not sure where the Flash came from, probably Adobe's website.
I enjoy "breaking" my system, so I often run non-fedora releases of stuff. The Mozilla version of Firefox didn't run correctly out-of-the-box on my (F11) system. To make it work I had to set the environment with "export CANBERRA_DRIVER=null" before running Firefox.
I installed Firefox in my home directory (/home/john/firefox) and kept the Fedora version.
Regards,
John
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
I am using flash 10.0.45.2 (64 bit) and Fedora 11 (with Firefox 3.5.9).
Fox News videos wouldn't play until I uninstalled nspluginwrapper.x86_64.
On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 Temlakostemlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
I am using flash 10.0.45.2 (64 bit) and Fedora 11 (with Firefox 3.5.9).
Fox News videos wouldn't play until I uninstalled nspluginwrapper.x86_64.
And how did you do that?
Temlakos
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:22 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 Temlakostemlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
I am using flash 10.0.45.2 (64 bit) and Fedora 11 (with Firefox 3.5.9).
Fox News videos wouldn't play until I uninstalled nspluginwrapper.x86_64.
And how did you do that?
Confirmed on my system. Running F12 x86_64 with FF 3.6.2 (latest from Remi's repository). Uninstalling nspluginwrapper allows the Flash object on Fox News Website to play without issue.
Command to uninstall nspluginwrapper is: rpm -e nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-10.fc12.x86_64
Re-installing nspluginwrapper causes the 64-bit Flash player to fail.
I suggest we open a BZ against the 64-bit version of nspluginwrapper as it is attempting to "wrap" 64-bit plugins such as Flash-64 in a way that is causing them to fail when called with certain scripts. This also might point to why the 32-bit Adobe Reader plugin fails to load in F12 x86_64...
Cheers,
Chris
-- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
On 04/02/2010 09:31 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:22 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 Temlakostemlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide a clue.
Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrote.
And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
I am using flash 10.0.45.2 (64 bit) and Fedora 11 (with Firefox 3.5.9).
Fox News videos wouldn't play until I uninstalled nspluginwrapper.x86_64.
And how did you do that?
Confirmed on my system. Running F12 x86_64 with FF 3.6.2 (latest from Remi's repository). Uninstalling nspluginwrapper allows the Flash object on Fox News Website to play without issue.
Command to uninstall nspluginwrapper is: rpm -e nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-10.fc12.x86_64
Re-installing nspluginwrapper causes the 64-bit Flash player to fail.
I suggest we open a BZ against the 64-bit version of nspluginwrapper as it is attempting to "wrap" 64-bit plugins such as Flash-64 in a way that is causing them to fail when called with certain scripts. This also might point to why the 32-bit Adobe Reader plugin fails to load in F12 x86_64...
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks for the tip.
Now for everyone's information, I removed nspluginwrapper from my installed base of RPMs, using my particular package manager, which happens to be Smart. Then I reloaded Firefox and went back to that page I built, with the embedded video from Fox News Channel. And this time, it played.
Chris, may I suggest that the problem is a bit wider than the 64-bit version. The 32-bit version does the same. My plugins were all using "nswrapper-32-32." Now, without nspluginwrapper, they're all back to their native .so files.
So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with nspluginwrapper in place.
Temlakos
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 Temlakos wrote:
So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with nspluginwrapper in place.
It isn't just videos. One of my credit cards has some silly flash app for generating temporary credit card numbers, and for many years, it wouldn't run with the wrapper. I had to go to a lot of trouble to run a 32 bit firefox with no wrapper when I wanted to generate a credit card number for mail order. I think recent versions have started working OK with the wrapper, but I have no idea what changed.
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:10 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 Temlakos wrote:
So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with nspluginwrapper in place.
It isn't just videos. One of my credit cards has some silly flash app for generating temporary credit card numbers, and for many years, it wouldn't run with the wrapper. I had to go to a lot of trouble to run a 32 bit firefox with no wrapper when I wanted to generate a credit card number for mail order. I think recent versions have started working OK with the wrapper, but I have no idea what changed.
OK - Good to know. I tried to compile together all of the high points from this thread into a BZ, which I just opened against nspluginwrapper.
BZ Number: 579092 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579092
Please feel free to review and add any information you think is pertinent.
Cheers,
Chris
-- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
On 04/02/2010 09:14 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:10 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 Temlakos wrote:
So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with nspluginwrapper in place.
It isn't just videos. One of my credit cards has some silly flash app for generating temporary credit card numbers, and for many years, it wouldn't run with the wrapper. I had to go to a lot of trouble to run a 32 bit firefox with no wrapper when I wanted to generate a credit card number for mail order. I think recent versions have started working OK with the wrapper, but I have no idea what changed.
OK - Good to know. I tried to compile together all of the high points from this thread into a BZ, which I just opened against nspluginwrapper.
BZ Number: 579092 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579092
Please feel free to review and add any information you think is pertinent.
Cheers,
Chris
--
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
Worked for me too...un-installed the wrapper and restarted FF.